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in our world, that man is steve jobs. steve jobs dropped out of college. he was an orphan. a guy that just came out of nowhere. think what he accomplished simply because he loves it. he is obsessed with this stuff. these are toys for him to play with, a campus rim to pay not. when he founded apple computer he completely transformed the computer industry from a command to control mainframe model to an individual empowerment desktop waddle. he made that happen. a few years later, he bought an obscure little digital rendering company on fire sale when george lucas needed to get rid of it, called pixar. he had this idea that this could be used to create full-length animated movies. he thought that would be pretty cool. he would like to see a movie like that so he found this guy named john lasseter and they worked on a movie that would eventually be called toy story. he spent so many years on it and so much a steve jobs's when he came near to personal bankruptcy funding it and they also almost and discontinued boy story. toy stories in the top 10 dig is grossing movies of all ti
in our world, that man is steve jobs. steve jobs dropped out of college. he was an orphan. a guy that just came out of nowhere. think what he accomplished simply because he loves it. he is obsessed with this stuff. these are toys for him to play with, a campus rim to pay not. when he founded apple computer he completely transformed the computer industry from a command to control mainframe model to an individual empowerment desktop waddle. he made that happen. a few years later, he bought an...
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>> thank you come steve and to all of you for being here and to the circle for having us. it's a treat to be here and otter to be part of this series. i start work on this book actually as a detour from a book i'd been working on for quite awhile on the history of democracy from the ancient world to the end of the 19th century. and i was an angel in the teaching at the university of cambridge giving lectures on american political fox, when i came back to the u.s. for a symposium after the election of barack obama coming in on that trip, i reread "dreams from my father," and "the audacity of hope," and out of the themes i felt from the seven lectures were developed from his book "the audacity to go," so i looked around to see what had been written about this book and i found that the answer was nothing and people were treating it as if it were another book by a political hack, laying out his campaign program. but instead it's written about a jury well-educated professor of constitutional law, reflecting on american history. so why undertook to the kind of intellectual biogr
>> thank you come steve and to all of you for being here and to the circle for having us. it's a treat to be here and otter to be part of this series. i start work on this book actually as a detour from a book i'd been working on for quite awhile on the history of democracy from the ancient world to the end of the 19th century. and i was an angel in the teaching at the university of cambridge giving lectures on american political fox, when i came back to the u.s. for a symposium after the...
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i just don't think -- i think there's one person, steve jobs, who is a unique blend of chromosomes, who can get unique touch with a person like martha, to get in touch. we hear 3d movies aren't doing well. four out of five households make less than $55,000 a year in this country. if you don't think that's an interesting way to live, try doing it for some of you that don't. they can't afford 3d. hollywood is starting to flounder. it would be interesting to bring it back if sony teamed up with google to really improve their user experience, or teamed up with disney, or teamed up with a content company that knows how to entertain. and use navigation. because i can't find half of the things that i hear about. i'm in the business. i think those are the two trends that we're going to start to see. better user experience and actually going out and teaching people how to do it. >> great. something about -- we all touched on this a little bit. i do work in the video space. it might be self-serving. the whole concept of how we are consuming. i'm a consumer of media, news, journalism, movies, tele
i just don't think -- i think there's one person, steve jobs, who is a unique blend of chromosomes, who can get unique touch with a person like martha, to get in touch. we hear 3d movies aren't doing well. four out of five households make less than $55,000 a year in this country. if you don't think that's an interesting way to live, try doing it for some of you that don't. they can't afford 3d. hollywood is starting to flounder. it would be interesting to bring it back if sony teamed up with...
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medicare and medicaid services insurance direct or, steve larsen testified these provisions appear powerful tool to state regulators by allowing them to reject or modify any rate increase excessive or unjustified. this is two hours and 10 minutes. >> the u.n. is somehow performed in empowering states to consumers. in a decade before the affordable care was passed, relentlessly increasing health-insurance premiums post a heavy tax on families and small businesses. over those 10 years come at premiums for a family, employer-sponsored coverage more than doubled. small businesses simply couldn't afford it anymore and began dropping coverage. congress had to activate it activate it in passing the football karaites enacted reforms to detain this runaway premium growth are today's hearing will explore how those reforms are already protecting tumors. it's basic economics that one of the surest ways to bring down prices is your open and tough competition. for the first time in our history, health reform applies this basic principle to the health insurance market. in 21st income americans in every st
medicare and medicaid services insurance direct or, steve larsen testified these provisions appear powerful tool to state regulators by allowing them to reject or modify any rate increase excessive or unjustified. this is two hours and 10 minutes. >> the u.n. is somehow performed in empowering states to consumers. in a decade before the affordable care was passed, relentlessly increasing health-insurance premiums post a heavy tax on families and small businesses. over those 10 years come...
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you know, steve touched on this briefly. there was a momentum back then when i thought that my career was over and a career that had taken many years to build going on fast, and today many people felt a we are going to a book signing but you are really here for a celebration. i don't know if the of celebrations at the end of those survivors tv shows that this is what it feels like to me. i got my head back above, standing and you can't get to that point without people who care about you, people who love you and people who take usia and told you when you are wrong and how to deal with the situation. and so many of you in the room tonight are those people for me, my friends and especially those of you that our professional journalists, you know how to use our profession is and how things go up and down and ratings, editors, relationships, you never know. so, tonight i just want to tell you this is a celebration for me, a celebration of love. i want to sprigg thanks to my friends and families, my son wife. you know, you guys ar
you know, steve touched on this briefly. there was a momentum back then when i thought that my career was over and a career that had taken many years to build going on fast, and today many people felt a we are going to a book signing but you are really here for a celebration. i don't know if the of celebrations at the end of those survivors tv shows that this is what it feels like to me. i got my head back above, standing and you can't get to that point without people who care about you, people...
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now, we can -- when we discuss the future of the book, we can't build it on anything that steve jobs holds over his head at macworld. at the end of the day, you are not screaming and creating content or telling a story to a vice that is going to be declared obsolete in seven months. the future of the book, regardless of the format for how it's distributed really has to do with selling one book at a time to one person at a time and really making the book have so much value that somebody like myself did at the london book fair will not care about any price barriers for content barriers in order to get it. and we are always going to have print books forever. you can write that down. we will have print books forever, but we will also have e-book forever in the future of the book will involve all of us talking about where one stands in relation to the other and how we can get innovative and intelligent people to really talk about ways to make the industry better. so with that, i would like to introduce our first panelist. jed lyons is the president and ceo of rowman & littlefield publishi
now, we can -- when we discuss the future of the book, we can't build it on anything that steve jobs holds over his head at macworld. at the end of the day, you are not screaming and creating content or telling a story to a vice that is going to be declared obsolete in seven months. the future of the book, regardless of the format for how it's distributed really has to do with selling one book at a time to one person at a time and really making the book have so much value that somebody like...
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steve, wills and such. to cover politically ambitious bostonians, james otis junior and samuel adams junior's an opportunity to make money and to gain political power by organizing mobs of unemployed waterfront workers to protest the stamp tax. and there are many of these workers left after the end of the seven years war. to win some public support for the protest, they coped better duties under the banner of constitutional rights. they claimed that americans had no representation in parliament and that for parliament to tax them without such rep as an tatian was a violation of the british come to to shame. they were under these mobs, under the secret pay at the merchants and newspaper publishers. addison out of sunday's monster terry's britain's waterfront. they attacked the tax collectors, burned their homes, prevented ships from landing. gradually they closed the waterfront in close to boston to almost all british ships. adams then wrote to political leaders and other coastal cities. he is absolutely fil
steve, wills and such. to cover politically ambitious bostonians, james otis junior and samuel adams junior's an opportunity to make money and to gain political power by organizing mobs of unemployed waterfront workers to protest the stamp tax. and there are many of these workers left after the end of the seven years war. to win some public support for the protest, they coped better duties under the banner of constitutional rights. they claimed that americans had no representation in parliament...
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i'm not steve clemons. [laughter] i'm nick goldberg, editor of the editorial page at the "los angeles times". i was called -- [applause] am i still in los angeles? [laughter] i was called 234 at the last moment to moderate the panel because steve clemons cannot be here, one of the couple people who dropped out of the panel because there's a white house correspondence dinner. there's a panel talking about president obama on the night of the white house correspondence dinner. [laughter] so let me -- let me get started. i'm going to start by doing something -- can you hear me? i'll start by doing something a little mean which is i'm going to read something that garret, to my left, wrote a few years ago, and -- >> i have absolutely no idea what this is going to be. [laughter] >> i know. it's to remind us what we were thinking when president obama was elected, and then i'll begin to introduce my fellow panelists and ask them questions. back in 2006, garrett wrote the following. he said no one heard of the skinny
i'm not steve clemons. [laughter] i'm nick goldberg, editor of the editorial page at the "los angeles times". i was called -- [applause] am i still in los angeles? [laughter] i was called 234 at the last moment to moderate the panel because steve clemons cannot be here, one of the couple people who dropped out of the panel because there's a white house correspondence dinner. there's a panel talking about president obama on the night of the white house correspondence dinner. [laughter]...
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[applause] >> thank you very much, steve. i'm a great lover of this wonderful institution, the national constitution center and i also wanted to remind you that we have an exhibit upstairs in posterity hauled between the signers hall and the main exhibit area on lincoln that i hope you will get to take a look at some time in the coming weeks. it is obligatory for a person sitting in this chair to praise the author and to praise his luck, and ethically i think anyone who agrees to perform my role as interlocutor has to genuinely believe that and the other occasions in which i have done this, i have done this. but this really is in a cage and in which i want to go a little little bit over the top because i do think adam is a very special historian and this is a very very special book. as steve described adam's career he really has been at a remarkably early age a very important public intellectual. speaking to a wide audience about a wide variety of subjects i think since he graduated from harvard, not that long ago. and now he
[applause] >> thank you very much, steve. i'm a great lover of this wonderful institution, the national constitution center and i also wanted to remind you that we have an exhibit upstairs in posterity hauled between the signers hall and the main exhibit area on lincoln that i hope you will get to take a look at some time in the coming weeks. it is obligatory for a person sitting in this chair to praise the author and to praise his luck, and ethically i think anyone who agrees to perform...
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. >> host: illinois, steve, democratic line. >> caller: i want to let you know i support the debt ceiling deal that was reached by congress yesterday and signed by president obama into law. >> host: okay. >> caller: i just want to let you know. and what i will be voting for president obama and in the upcoming election cycle. >> host: do you think the debt deal helps the president? >> caller: hi, i'd like to welcome everybody from dover, ohio. i failed to understand why iowa has such a big importance of being the first caucus or whatever. to my understanding they have a straw poll, caucus, and then a primary later. the straw poll and the caucus are strictly people that have been paid to show up. they are given transportation, and whatever. >> host: mike glover, clarification there. >> the straw poll which will happen in about a week and a half is an event where candidates do do -- they bus pee to straw poll to vote for them. they pass out tickets to people to vote for them. so it's a competition. it's all about who can turn out people to show up at a particular place at a particular night
. >> host: illinois, steve, democratic line. >> caller: i want to let you know i support the debt ceiling deal that was reached by congress yesterday and signed by president obama into law. >> host: okay. >> caller: i just want to let you know. and what i will be voting for president obama and in the upcoming election cycle. >> host: do you think the debt deal helps the president? >> caller: hi, i'd like to welcome everybody from dover, ohio. i failed to...
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steve got that problem. but i think whether you run within the democratic party or not, i give you do not become cynical, do not give up on the political process. we are fighting for not only our generation, but for our kids and our grandchildren. i have six grandchildren. i take their future seriously. okay? and we do not have the option of not fighting. we can beat these guys. we can beat them. nobody believes in their ideology. nobody thinks that children in america should not have health care or that workers should not have lights. [applause] they are a fringe movement, and if the democrats have the guts to go out and organize, if we work together on this thing, we can beat them and beat them badly. [applause] but we can't do it -- i know that it's hard. look, i know. people all over the country are disappointed. i'm disappointed. but you can't give up. we have to raise that progressive agenda, make it loud and clear, organize people about that, educate. because what we are fighting for is so important i
steve got that problem. but i think whether you run within the democratic party or not, i give you do not become cynical, do not give up on the political process. we are fighting for not only our generation, but for our kids and our grandchildren. i have six grandchildren. i take their future seriously. okay? and we do not have the option of not fighting. we can beat these guys. we can beat them. nobody believes in their ideology. nobody thinks that children in america should not have health...
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really meaning to leave town, but not wanting to leave too fast to kids they didn't want the onlooker steve inc. the earp had that been down and made them leave. any number of things might have prevented this. even if that up in the case, something similar would've happened sometime soon. >> unitas says after the gunfight, they could reasonably walk away feeling they were heroes. that didn't happen. what does that tell us about tombstone? >> first of all, i think virgil small made was when he settled i don't cannot. i think the earp's moment came the day after the gunfight when instead of being recognized as heroes, which they were expecting company that 2000 mourners turning out for the l.a. kelantan and mclaury brothers. the tombstone leaders -- by the way, one of the things about historians like land is they don't just want to have a different opinion looking at the same set of facts. it's the open-mindedness that encourages discussion rather than arguments. i've learned so much from him. i think we all have. but what i thought i was talking about -- hang on to second. it's been a long d
really meaning to leave town, but not wanting to leave too fast to kids they didn't want the onlooker steve inc. the earp had that been down and made them leave. any number of things might have prevented this. even if that up in the case, something similar would've happened sometime soon. >> unitas says after the gunfight, they could reasonably walk away feeling they were heroes. that didn't happen. what does that tell us about tombstone? >> first of all, i think virgil small made...